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Monty Python's Life of Brian [Special Edition, Criterion Voyager]

DVD - APPROX. 94 MINS. - 1979 - US Rating: R

Main feature:

Release Original Release Date Unknown
Video Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audio English: Dolby Digital 1.0
Subtitles English
Studio Criterion/Voyager
Year 1979
Genre Comedy

Special features:

  • Two exclusive audio commentaries: One by Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, and Terry Jones; the second by John Cleese and Michael Palin
  • Original theatrical trailer
  • Five rarely seen deleted scenes with audio commentary by the Pythons
  • Four original British radio ads
  • Documentary film The Pythons, shot on location during the making of Life of Brian

Synopsis:

On a Midnight Clear 2000 years ago, three wise men enter a manger where a babe is wrapped in swaddling clothes. It is an infant called Brian...and the three wise men are in the wrong manger. For the rest of his life, Brian (Graham Chapman) finds himself regarded as something of a Messiah¿yet he's always in the shadow of this Other Guy from Galilee. Brian is witness to the Sermon of the Mount, but his seat is in such a bad location that he can't hear any of it ("Blessed are the cheesemakers?"). Ultimately he is brought before Pontius Pilate and sentenced to crucifixion, which takes place at that crowded, non-exclusive execution site a few blocks shy of Calvary. Rather than utter the Last Six Words, Brian leads his fellow crucifixees in a spirited rendition of a British music hall cheer-up song "Always Look On The Bright Side of Life." The whole Monty Python gang (Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, and Terry Gilliam) are on hand in multiple roles, playing such sacred characters as Stan Called Loretta, Deadly Dirk, Casts the First Stone, and Intensely Dull Youth; also showing up are Goon Show veteran Spike Milligan and a Liverpool musician named George Harrison.

Cast and Crew:

Criterion/Voyager presents
Michael Palin Graham ChapmanJohn CleeseTerry GilliamEric IdleTerry Jones"Monty Python's Life of Brian"
produced byJohn Goldstone
directed byTerry Jones
Production Year: 1979

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